Involvement of Data Mining In Health Services

The Role of Data Mining in Improving Health Care Decision Support Systems

Abstract

Therole of data mining in health care has become the subject matter of wide andvaried research activities [Kaur H. et.al., 2006]. Extraction of usefulinformation from health care data offers a lot of challenges in terms ofstorage, dissemination, privacy and security of patient data. While the privacyissue is more of a legal and ethical issue rather than technological issue,data mining offers broader community-based gains that enable and improvehealthcare forecasting, analysis, and visualisation [Payton F.C., 2003]. Guideduse of technologies like database systems, data mining and knowledge managementcan contribute a lot to decision support systems in health care.